[PATCH] Input: i8042 - Fix console keyboard support on Gen2 Hyper-V VMs

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Mon Apr 18 20:36:01 UTC 2016


On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 02:24:47AM +0900, Mark Laws wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com> wrote:
> > So if the user inserts the module without a keyboard then in the
> > original code they would just put a keyboard in and try again.  Now they
> > have to do an extra rmmod.  What about if we just removed the test for
> > if the keyboard is present?
> 
> Sorry, I don't understand--which part are you suggesting we remove?
> 

The call to i8042_controller_check() or move it to the probe function or
something.  Why must we have the hardware to load the module?

regards,
dan carpenter



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